Rail construction.



A. BABIJCZUK.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

ANDREW BABIJ'CZUK, OF NUTANA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. as, rare.

Application filed December 2]., 1915. Serial No. 68,850.

the provision of a railway rail structure of great strengthand at the same time possess 111g resiliency for preventingthesaine from breaking under the stress of the railway rolling stock.

A further object of the device is to provide a compact rail structure adapted to possess extreme strength and flexibility, the arrangement being such as to obviate the necessity of employing any fish plates or other connecting means.

It is further designed to provide a combined rail connector and rail strengthening device winch 1s suihciently resilient for compactly uniting the connector with the rail when the rail is under a load during the operation of the railroad.

' Withthe'se general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims;

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like-designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views :-Figure l is a perspective view of a section of the device also showing a cross-section thereof, the elements being in their normal position, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View of the same as arranged when under a load with a portion of a car wheel illustrated or shown mounted thereon. 1

Referring more in detail tothe drawings,

a rail 10 is provided of substantially the usual form having a web 11, base. flanges 12 and a tread 13, the tread however having lower inclined outward and downwardly flaring faces 14. Arranged for employment with this form of rail, is an inclosing fishplate l5'formed of slightly resilient material and having a base 16 adapted to seat upon the cross ties of the road-bed. A plate 17 is resiliently mounted upon the base 16 by means of a plurality of helical springs 18 seated within sockets 18 provided in the base, while the rail 10 is adapted to be mounted upon the platel? and thus be resiliently supported thereon.

The rail flanges 12 are inclosed beneath the side flanges 19 of the fish plate, and the upper faces 20 of the said rail flanges 12 are normally held in resilient contact with the lower inner faces of the plate flanges 1.9. The opposite webs 21 of the fish plate 15 are spaced apart substantially parallel and adapted for the reception of the rail web 11 tl'ierebetween, the upper faces 22 of the said rail webs being inclined or beveled and positioned shghtlv spaced from the tread faces 14 as best illustrated in Fig. l of the drawings. 7

Upon receiving a load upon the rail tread 13 such as would be exerted by a wheel 23 passing'o-ver the rail 10, the rail will be depressed thereby, which will correspondingly depress the plate 17 and compress the mounting springs 18', while the rail web faces let will engage the plate web surfaces 22 and bend the plate webs and flanges 19 into compact engagement with the inclosed rail l0at the point as illustrated in Fig. 2, the upper faces of the rail base 12 adjacent the side edges being slightly spaced from the flanges 19. 7

It will be seen that a plurality of fish plates 15 may thus be slidably positioned upon a rail 10 for resiliently mounting the rail upon the roadbed as well as strengthening the same when placed under a load. It will be understood that by positioning the adjacent ends of longitudinally alining rails within a single one of the fish plates 15 that the rails will be thus operatively connected together without the employment of any bolts or other connecting devices. The rail and fish plates may be secured to the cross-ties such as 24 by means of the usual spikes 25 or other similar hold-fast devices.

While the form of the invention herein shown and described is what is believed to be the preferred embodiment thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changesmay be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as claimed.

[Vhat I claim as new is 1. A device of the class described comprising in combination with a T-shaped railway rail having the tread thereof provided with downwardly and outwardly inclined lower faces, a resilient fish plate complementally formed and inclosing the web and base flanges of the said rail and having a supporting base, a plate normally arranged parallel with the said base and positioned beneath the said ail, expansion supporting springs between the said base and plate, the rail flanges being normally in resilient contact with the inner faces of the base flanges when the plate is mounted upon the rail, and the upper edges of the webs of the fish plate being inclined and positioned adjacent the said web rail tread faces.

2. A rail construction comprising a railway rail having the tread thereof provided with wedge faces, a resilient combined fish plate and connector slidably positioned upon the said rail and having normally spaced web portions'at opposite sides of the rail web and further having base flanges in normal resilient engagement with the base ANDREW BABIJCZUK.

Witnesses: v

C. B. CLARK, TOM P. Sneswonrn.

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